Mr. Attorney General, you are acting today like the president's personal attorney,

and that's the whole problem.

You've got his whole, you have a whole banner of his face hanging over the Department of

Justice, and you and everybody else walks under it, and you are acting like you're his

current personal attorney.

You do not belong in this job, Mr. Attorney, Acting Attorney General.

You should always and recuse yourself from these issues because you are the president's lawyer.

You are not the lawyer for the United.

Yes, you are.

Hi again, everyone. It's 5 o'clock in the east, trying to make smugness great again, I guess, is his plan.

That's Donald Trump's personal lawyer. I'm sorry, Donald Trump's current acting attorney general and appointee to be the country's attorney general under intense scrutiny this week, as he will appear before Senate Judiciary Committee members on Wednesday for a confirmation hearing. Todd Blanche can't afford to

lose even one Republican on this or else his nomination to be the official and no longer the acting

attorney general will be dead. Today, a development that further calls into question whether Todd Blanche's true allegiance is

to Donald Trump, who he represented as his personal criminal defense attorney, or to the

country, question that has been looming over Todd Blanche since he joined the Trump administration.

Judge Kathleen Williams ruled that

Donald Trump's lawsuit against the IRS, which Todd Blanche settled in May, was brought for, quote,

improper purposes. She writes, quote, the nature of the suit itself and the conduct of the parties

and counsel from its filing makes plain that this was an attempt to use the court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement,

to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the president, and to earmark billions of dollars from American taxpayers to redress grievances not to find in the law.

On the context of that filing, the New York Times writes this, quote,

the decision by the judge, Judge Williams, who sits in federal district court in Miami,

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